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OK, so it was my official weigh in day and as I snuck in a weigh in mid week I assumed I wouldn’t have lost any more…but i’ve dropped another pound!

YAY ME! I am sooooo happy that I really seem to have cracked this weight loss thing now, I am eating enough food to stay healthy and not get those tummy rumbles! and I am still losing the weight at a good steady pace.

I do need to find out a little more about vitimins though..taking a bog standard multi vitimin to support my nutritional balance but my finger nails seem to be flaking and are getting white spots on them…so I know i’m lacking in something. Do any of you guys have any suggestions?

Love to you all. Have a FAB weekend. x

I feel like my thoughts are floating around in cyberspace right now…no idea if I am posting a blog or writing to Tony Blair right now!     LOL. Well I am back after yesterdays rant about not getting on with all these changes…as you can probably guess I am still lost!

Talking of being lost…(great link eh?) I have lost another 1lb…I know I was not meant to weigh myself but when I got dressed this morning my t-shirt look REALLY loose around my waist so I had to check!

So YAY! Happy, happy, happy…..hope this gets posted. Hope all my buddies are well today. Lots of hugs. x  

  I may not be convinced and I may think that Dr Marc has gone mad by making us regular users suffer to appease the newbies but I wont let these new (BAD) changes chase me away just yet…ok Angela?! LOL.

Wow, I know I am a complete technophobe but this new layout is doing my head in. Thanks Mark….managed to find my way around eventually.

Have to say, I am not sure I will be visiting this site as much now. Hope all you guys get on better than I do. Thank you all for all your friendship and support. I can only hope that I find some other way to stay motivated.

 Bye xxx

YAY ME! I have managed to shift another pound this week and I am feeeeeling good!     

I am back in yet another pair of my pre-pregnancy jeans, love these ones I finally feel like I can look good and be fashionable again without worrying about adjusting my clothes every five minutes!

I must admit I have been working hard and eating really well, I have also added a vitimin to suppliment my nutritional intake and I feel great, healthier than I have felt in a long time.

Hope all my lovely buddies are doing as well and are feeling great…have a wonderful weekend guys. xxx

I will warn you now, this blog is not a happy one. I need to write this down and finally release these feelings once and for all.

When I was 14 I met a guy that was completely different form anyone I had ever met before. Danny was the kind of guy who took each day as an adventure, he only ever saw the positive and just being with him made me happy.

Danny was a free spirit, a traveller, a philosopher, he spent the next 13 years doing his own thing. He would pack his bags and head off to India or Spain just because he felt like it and wanted to experience as much as he could in his lifetime.

That lifetime was cut short by two men, last year Danny was kidnapped and held for a month (all to do with drugs and money, Danny was a stoner) they killed him and left him in a shallow grave just outside our home town.

That was a year ago now and still feel like my heart will burst when I think that I will never see him again, that he will never see my son growing up.

Danny and I spent about a year in what some people would call a relationship I suppose, we called it fate and enjoyed each others company whenever we could.

This was not something that I had told Lee (my fiance) not because it is any kind of secret just because it had never come up and the only time it was an issue was when he went missing last year and I found myself spiralling into a broken hearted depression.

Lee is a wonderfully understanding man, he had met Danny a few times and those few times had touched him like it did many people so he was understandably very upset Danny was found.

Last night I was having a particularly hard time thinking of Danny and I explained to Lee about our “relationship” he was amazing and although hurt that he thought I had kept it from him he held me tight and let me grieve for a man who I loved very deeply.

I feel so lucky to have found Lee, I love him like I could never love anyone else and with his help I have managed to let go of Danny and in a positive way. We said a toast to him last night and thanked him for enriching our lives.

I’m sorry for writing such a sad blog but this is my final tribute to an amazing man who I feel people should know about.

Goodbye sweet Danny, rest in peace. You will always be in my heart and I will tell Ollie about the great man I once knew who taught me so much about enjoying life.

Please take care of yourselves buddies and cherish every moment you have with your friends and family. x

So my new scale and I have bonded well….I have been testing it by getting on it in every conceivable position (often resulting in 20 minute fits of laughter by my man!….they just don’t understand)

and yes, it shows the same weight whatever I do!

Finally a consistent scale (it even read the same for 2 days     in   a row) So I am getting back on my Monday weekly weigh in now and I am feeling positive.

I just wanted to wish all my buddies here a great weekend…wont be around much as it’s fathers day here tomorrow so we’ll be having some family time.

So happy weekend all you lovely guys & girls and to all those dads out there a very happy fathers day to you.

xxx

              I have been having a total nightmare with my evil scales as some of you already know.

Well the problem peaked yesterday when I saw the doctor and her scales lulled me into a false sense of security telling me I had in fact lost 10lbs since joining BuddySlim and reached 174lbs (well 176 but take off two for jeans and jumper)

  Well today we have a new situation, I weighed myself on Tuesday at my local chemist…it gives you a printout! Ahhh(I’d previously had a very heavy food session lasting 2 days!)My printout read….184lbs. (remember the 2lb clothes1)

Well that printout was blown out of the water by the doctors scales until today when I returned to the chemist to buy my electronic scales and I stepped back onto their scales…181lbs (2lb clothes) OK…so when I got my new scale home and got my kit off before stepping on it corroborated what my chemist had told me…I do in fact weigh 179lbs.

So today I feel I have been cheating you all (and myself) by reducing my weight ticker too much. I am going to adjust my ticker today. I don’t know what I weighed when I joined BuddySlim now but I do know that 6 months ago I weighed 200lbs so I’ll go from there.

I am adding my measurements from six months ago to now and I intend to add them once a month..I WILL LOSE THIS WEIGHT! Long way to go even to my mini goal now but if you guys will forgive me and keep supporting me I know I can do it….

Waist was - 34″ now- 31″

Chest was - 42″ now - 38″

Hips was - 43″ now- 40″

Tummy (baby belly!) was - 39″ now - 36″

Thighs were - 29″ now - 25″

Arms were - 15″ now - 13″

So I have managed to lose a total of 25″ in six months.

Slowly but surely, I’ll get there.

Told you that’s what I’d call it Mark! LOL. Well guys I did the doctor thing and YAY me…I have definitely lost my 10lbs bringing me out of the danger zone.

I now only have to visit dreaded doc every six months….this has been such a long time coming. She was really impressed with the weight I have lost and my blood pressure is getting better and better.

So all the hard work seems to be paying off and I am soooo going to stick with it all, I was losing motivation when I couldn’t shift any more pounds but I have taken on board all of your comments and words of support and there’s no stopping me now!

You just watch that ticker heading for my next mini goal….

I am off to do my happy dance (again!) lets get those calories burnt and those muscles toned. LOL.

Hope everyone is having a good week. Take care of yourselves.

Ok, so I have just phoned up to make my doctors appointment. I have to visit the doctor every 3 months to get my contraceptive pills because of my weight. They were worried I was heading towards DVT.

Well my first 3 months on my new pill are up and it’s weigh in time….The scales at my doctors always make me feel lousy because they always add exactly 7lbs more than any othe domestic scales! weird eh?Maybe because I tend to go at the end of the day and I do NOT intend to bare all at the docs so I can put a few pounds down to my jeans! LOL.

Anyway, I am hoping that the doctors scales will reflect what my scales are saying and if they do then I wont have to go back for six months next time! YAY.

That means I will only have to see my dreaded doc twice a year (apart from when I get poorly of course)

Wish me luck. x